Elastic tire.



No. 680,332. Patented Aug. ls, lsl.

w. KIGHTLINGEm A ELAsTlc TIRE (Application led Oct. 25, 1899.)

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wil/manc I v UNITED `STATES-' PATENT -FFICE.

WILLIAM KIGI-ITLINGIIR,' or MARYSVILLE, oIIIo.

ELASTIC TIR.

SBECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 680,332., dated August 13, iQl.

' 'Applicant inea octbber 25,- 1899. serial No. 734,730. (No modem To @ZZ whom/'it may con/cern.- Be it known that I, WILLIAM KIGHTLINGER,

resident of Marysville, in the county of Union and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Elastic Tires; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of thef, invention, `such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use-the same.

This invention 'relates to elastic tires for -wheels, andphas for its object to provide la compound elastic tire lhaving superior efficiencyv and durability and capable of easy application to` an ordinary wheel and to others and adapted also tobe easily renewed.

The invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and pointed out..

In theaccompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a broken perspective of a wheel-rim with the :improved tireapplied. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same. modified detail.

Fig. 3 is a section of a Numeral l indicates a felly, and 2 indicates spokes; 3 denotes an ordinary metal tire. These may be of any usual or preferred construction. The wheel-rim may consist of a single piece of bent wood and the metal tire may ybe heavy or light, as desired. In some cases,

where but little strength is required in the wheel', the metal tire may be omitted, though ordinarily it-will be required to insure suit- 'able strength in the Wheel, and the invention is primarily for metal-tired wheels.

. To the wheel-rim is secured a solid piece of 'rubber' 4, preferably in the form of a com- Iplete r'ing and of suitable dimensions to be for detachably securing the band 4: to the wheel. This band will not be subject to wear, and it will not ordinarily be necessary to remove it unless for repairing the wheel or resetting the metal tire.

The band 4 has less width than the metal in it to adapt it to fit the band 4. Cement 9 is used to make a tight joint between these sections.

10 indicates rivets passed through the inner band 4: and through the wings 11 of the outer section to bind them together. Screw-bolts 12 may be used instead of rivets, if desired;

but in such casey the bolt-heads and the securing-screws will be sunk in the rubber, as indicated in Fig. 3.

The main part of the compressionA of the elastic tire will occur in the outer section, the inner section being removed from immediate pressure and defended by the outer section.

The rivets pass through the wings which em Y brace the inner section. The inner section, however, will yield under transmitted pressure to some extent, whereby injurious strain on the material about the rivets is avoided. When the outer rubber section becomes worn, cut, or broken, a new one can be substituted bya person of ordinary skill, and no special skill or tools are required ,either for the original application of the rubber tire or for subsequent repairs, and, as before noted, in effect, no modification of an ordinary wheelrim and tire is required.

Rubber tires or bands have been combined with metallic tires, and bolts have been used to detachably connect tires upon rims, and such devices are not broadly of my invention.

Iam aware that compound tires comprising elastic bands and canvas or metal interposed between the bands, the whole being' secured to the wheel, have been proposed, and such construction is not herein claimed. By my improvement both bands of the compound elastic part of the tire rest directly on the outer face of an ordinary fiat tire and are detachably connected thereto, the inner`part directly and the outer part mediately. The construction is such that the IOCv two parts can be secured to an ordinary fiat tire within its edges and without the intervention of fastening devices other than the secu ring-belts or the like, and such that the outer band can be readily detached and a fresh unworn band substituted. Further, the metal tire defends the elastic band from Wear, such as produced by running obliquely y against a curbstone or other like obstruc-I tion.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim is In a wheel, the combination of a wooden` rim, a metal tire, a compound elastic supplemental tire comprising a ring detachably secured by bolts tol the metal tire and rim, a

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hi WILLIAM XS KIGHTLINGER.

Y mark `Witnesses:

LUCILLE GURRY, CHAs. D. MoREY. 

